Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forehead, his tightly shut lips conveying an expression of cruelty ... in fact, his whole being suggested that he was of exotic birth. More than once as I looked at him, I thought of ... Montezuma whose practiced hand could in a single day sacrifice three thousand human creatures on the pyramid-like Altar...
...years they increased from 20,000 to a million people. The million composes one of the most tightly organized and smoothly functioning organizations on earth. The church has no clergy in the usual sense, but a vast pyramid of lay orders to which every male is expected to belong and to which a full 250,000 do. Boys become deacons and begin taking part in religious services when they are twelve. As they grow older they may become, successively, teachers, priests, elders, members of a Council of Seventy, and high priests. Women only "share in their husbands' priesthood," although...
...described last week by the pastor of Madison's First Unitarian Society. Unitarian Wright's idea of a " 'unit'arian" church involved combining steeple, auditorium and parish house into a unit under one roof (which would serve as "steeple"). The result looked like half a pyramid, vertically sliced; some people might have to be told that it was a church...
...pastor, he left Zurich soon after his first sermon, on the text: "What will this babbler say?" The babbler had decided that there was a better future in painting. "I do not wish to build a cottage," he wrote in a friend's album, "but to erect a pyramid...
Fuseli thought of himself simply as "Poetical," and he once complained that he had "little hope of Poetical painting finding encouragement in England [because] the People are not prepared for it. Portrait with them is everything." Yet while he lived, the pyramid of Fuseli's fame seemed imperishable...